[CIMC-work] At least 20-30 people have been arrested this morning in St. Louis--BioDevastation Conference

[Ian Bicking]

I'm getting ready to put a center-column piece on this tonight (if
someone else is also doing so, call me or something, 773-275-7241).


On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 23:49, Elizabeth Fraser wrote:
> I'm forwarding this info on what's happening at the BioDevastation
> Conference in St. Louis. I'm copying both Genewise and Chicago
> Indymedia. -- elizabeth fraser (not sure who's gone down from genewise
> yet or whether anyone from Chicago Indymedia has gone  down to cover)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gpusa-newsletter@list.serve.com
> [mailto:owner-gpusa-newsletter@list.serve.com] On Behalf Of Devin M.
> Ceartas
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 10:28 PM
> To: gpusa-newsletter@greenparty.org
> Subject: [GPUSA-Newsletter] HELP NEEDED NOW
> 
> YOUR HELP IS NEEDED RIGHT NOW!
> 
> Mitchel Cohen & Brian Tokar, writing from the BioDevastation Conference
> against Genetic Engineering in St. Louis, home of Monsanto:
> 
> At least 20-30 people have been arrested and we need your help Police
> invaded two known movement homes this morning, apparently in
> "pre-emptive raids" to prevent their attendance at Sunday's
> demonstration against the World Agricultural Forum Others were taken
> into custody while riding their bicycles to the BioDevastation gathering
> at Forest Park Community College, and the police have left the bicycles
> lying along the road Sarah Bantz organizer for MORAGE and a speaker at
> the BioDevastation conference was arrested for having a container of
> Vitamin C capsules, which police are claiming to be an illegal drug.
> 
> Police have also entered the Randall Building, office of the Gateway
> Greens/Green Party USA, St. Louis IndyMedia, the Confluence newspaper,
> and other organizations, searching for "violations" and who knows what
> else
> 
> For the last two weeks, the St=2E Louis police have been spreading
> rumors of "Seattle-like violence" in order to ratchet up the levels of
> tension, rationalizing their procurement of riot gear and new "crowd
> control" Weapons.
> 
> We are asking EVERYONE to call the Chief of Police Joe Mokwa, at (314)
> 444-5624 and demand their immediate release and stop their harassment of
> the movement against genetic engineering and corporate agribusiness=2E
> 
> We understand that the police may hang up as people try to call the
> above number=2E Other numbers for police are (314) 444-5555 and (314)
> 231-1212=2E=
> 
> 
> Thank you, and please spread the word!
> 
> 
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